box protection. when you see the january 6th commission meeting, when you see preachers camping out for voting rights, when you see the texas democrats all here within a span of 30 days, people are aware that there s some type of of al kamy happening around preserving democracy. while all of these individualized issues and causes of the day may not be about the same issues, they re all about the bigger picture of preserving democracy and if you re here in washington, d.c., it s all against the backdrop of four years of trump culminating in an insurrection on january 6th. people didn t like that. that didn t sit well with people and it s good that we re now having the voting rights discussions and the overall movement discussions to kind of tie all this stuff together and say, hey, whether we like it or not, whether we agree or not, we have a democracy to preserve. and i think that people in middle america or people who don t follow this stuff every day are starting to come on
ballot box protection. but when you see the january 6th commission meeting, when you see preachers campaigning after voter rights, when you see the texas democrats, all here within the span of 30 days, people are aware that there is some time some type of alchemy happening around the concept of preserving democracy. and while of all of these individualized issues and causes of the day may not be about the same discreet issues, they re all about the bigger picture of her it s all about the backdrop of four years of trump culminating in an insurrection on january 6th. people didn t like that. that didn t sit well with people. and it s good that we re now having the voting rights discussion and the overall movement discussions to come inside all this stuff together and say, hey, whether we like it or, not whether we agree or, not we have a democracy to preserve. and i think people in middle america are people who don t follow this stuff every day are
fight them. what assurances, if any, were you given from the vice president about their optimism or commitment to federal voting rights legislation that would undo all of these laws? i felt like we had an ally in the meeting. the fact we were pulled together and listened to is not something that always happens for members of our community. as you said earlier, there s 38 million voting age disabled americans. we have the potential to be very powerful and influential. but, like other marginalized groups if we re not able to engage in the democratic process, it makes it very hard for us to use those democratic processes to improve our quality of life, which is desperately needed across the country. so to be in a meeting we were authentically engaged, asked questions, she was taking a lot of notes, she was acknowledging what she doesn t know about our limited experience and vowing to
conversations with any russian officials at the mayflower hotel. i do not have any recollection of meeting or talking to the russian ambassador or any other russian officials. i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the united states. hi again, everyone. it s 5:00 in the east. that very old piece of testimony from the ex-president s first a.g., jeff sessions, lies at the center of a new chicken or the egg story. in question, whether it was sessions lack of recollections around his contacts with russians or the washington post report that followed disputing his lack of recollections that ignited a maniacal pursuit by the trump justice. we re just learning that a washington post report in july of 2017 about u.s. intelligence finding that russian ambassador
don t know what our taxpayers are buying for billions of dollars. i d be shocked if there wasn t. and the russians are listening too, right? oh, yeah. it s far from a private call. yeah. it s literally like it reminds in zoolander when he holds up the thing, where s the files in the computer. how do you not know the basics as the head of the dia about how call intercepts work. the second is kislyak obviously makes calls, you know, back to russia after he has every meeting with people in the trump campaign. i mean good lord, that tells you what a rookie jared was, jared kushner, when this was happening. and then when you look at jeff sessions, he probably was just doing diplomatic talks. i ve always kind of thought that from the beginning. what s interesting is that barr would come to the defense of jeff sessions, like in pursuing that leak investigation is also super interesting. i think the second part is really what katie and everybody here has been talking about.